Oldtime Canadian Sheriffs And Outlaws

Short-listed for the 2007 Arthur Ellis Award for Best Non-Fiction They were among Canada's most desperate criminals, yet their names have been all but forgotten in the annals of history - until now! In their day these lawless men made headline news. Author Ed Butts has rescued their stories from dusty newspaper pages and polished them up for today's readers in this fascinating volume. The Markham Gang introduced Canada West to organized crime long before anyone had heard of the Mafia. Lew Bevis took on the whole Halifax Police Department in a blazing gun battle. The wild Macdonald cousins went to Michigan, where they ended their violent careers as victims of a savage lynching. Reid and Davis, the notorious Border Bandits of the Roaring Twenties, were the nightmare of every banker from Manitoba to the state of Washington. This rogues' gallery of killers, robbers, and men of mystery shocked the nation, challenged the forces of law and order, and sometimes even got away with it.

Fourteen more stories of outlaws and lawmen on the Canadian frontier. Includes the Mad Trapper of Rat River; Saskatchewan's midnight massacre; Yukon's Christmas Day assassins; blazing guns at Banff;BC's murdering cannibal, Boone Helm; stone-age murders; Winnipeg's Prairie Strangler; and others. The book features 100 photographs and maps.

Dramatic cases involving Western Canada's pioneer lawmen. Included are The Mad Trapper of Rat River, Saskatchewan's Midnight Massacre, The Yukon's Christmas Day Assassins, When Guns Blazed at Banff, The Strangler Who Terrified the Prairies and British Columbia's Boone Helm- The Murdering Cannibal.

Stories of the diverse people who played a role in bringing justice to the western plains during Canada's formative years.

In this book Martin Robin tells seven remarkable and fascinating stories of Canadian badmen. All were heroes--or villains--in their time, and they remain popular legends today. The stories describe figures such as Bill Miner, the charming train robber who regularly held up the CPR; Donald Morrison, the Megantic Outlaw, who eluded capture for months after being shooting a constable sent to evict his family from their farm; and Almighty Voice, a Saskatchewan Cree hunted by Mounties for feeding his family with a stolen government cow, finally brought down with artillery fire. The Bad and the Lonely is a lucid, witty and poignant book that brings to life colourful and tragic figures from Canada's past.

Includes the Mad Trapper of Rat River; Saskatchewan's Midnight Massacre; Yukon's Christmas Day Assassins; When Guns Blazed at Banff, BC's Murdering Cannibal, Boone Helm; Winnipeg's Prairie Strangler and others.